Nonfiction
Michael Symon's playing with fire : BBQ and more from the grill, smoker, and fireplace
Michael Symon
641.5784 /Symon
Nonfiction, Cookbooks
In preparing to open his barbecue restaurant, Michael Symon enthusiastically sampled smoked meat from across America. The 150 finger-licking, lip-smacking recipes here draw inspiration from his favourites. Michael offers expert guidance on working with different styles of grills and smokers, choosing aromatic woods for smoking, cooking various cuts of meat, and successfully pairing proteins with rubs, sauces, and sides. Print run 125,000.
How to grill everything : simple recipes for great flame-cooked food
Mark Bittman
641.5784 /Bittman
Nonfiction, Cookbooks
Here's how to grill absolutely everything-- from the perfect steak to cedar-plank salmon to pizza-- explained in Bittman's straightforward style.With practical advice on all the grilling basics, this book is an exploration of the grill's nearly endless possibilities. Discover just how simple-- and versatile-- grilling can be.
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Thank you for smoking : fun and fearless recipes cooked with a whiff of wood fire on your grill or smoker
Paula Disbrowe
641.5784 /Disbrowe
Nonfiction, Cookbooks
Featuring an impressive array of smoke-infused recipes that extend well beyond the realm of rib joints, Thank You for Smoking shows home cooks how easy it is to rig a gas or charcoal grill or use a backyard smoker to infuse everything you love to eat--from veggies and greens to meat and fish--with a smoky nuance
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The South's best butts : pitmaster secrets for Southern barbecue perfection
Matt (Matt R.) Moore
641.5784 /Moore
Cookbooks, Nonfiction
Presents a look into the kitchens and smokehouses of the South's most revered pitmasters, exploring how the marriage of meat, cooking method, and sauce varies from place to place based on history and culture, climate, available ingredients, and wood.
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Black smoke : African Americans and the United States of barbecue
Adrian Miller
641.5784 /Miller
Cookbooks, Nonfiction
Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery has gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation's most distinctive culinary arts. And people aren't just eating it; they're also reading books and articles and watching TV shows about it. But why is it, asks Adrian Miller--admitted 'cuehead and longtime certified barbecue judge--that in today's barbecue culture African Americans don't get much love? In Black Smoke, Miller chronicles how Black barbecuers, pitmasters, and restaurateurs helped develop this cornerstone of American foodways and how they are coming into their own today
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Project fire : cutting-edge techniques and sizzling recipes from the caveman porterhouse to salt slab brownie s'mores
Steven Raichlen
641.5784 /Raichlen
Cookbooks, Nonfiction
Cutting-edge techniques meet time-honored traditions in 100 boldly flavored recipes that will help you turbocharge your game at the grill. Here's how to reinvent steak with reverse-seared beef tomahawks, dry-brined filet mignons, ember-charred porterhouses, and T-bones tattooed with grill marks and enriched, the way the pros do it, with melted beef fat. Here's how to spit-roast beef-brined cauliflower on the rotisserie. Blowtorch a rosemary veal chop. Grill mussels in blazing hay, peppery chicken under a salt brick, and herb-crusted salmon steaks on a shovel. From Seven Steps to Grilling Nirvana to recipes for grilled cocktails and desserts, Project Fire proves that live fire, and understanding how to master it, makes everything taste better.
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Serial griller : grillmaster secrets for flame-cooked perfection
Matt (Matt R.) Moore
641.5784 /Moore
Nonfiction, Cookbooks
Moore can't help it: if there's food and flame, he'll grill it. Here he shares his indiscriminate appetite for smoky perfection with a broad collection of recipes varied in method, technique, and cuisine. After a review of the basics, he takes the reader on a tour across America to round up authentic stories, coveted recipes, and indispensable tips from grill masters of the South and beyond. Moore offers his own tried-and-true grilling recipes for every part of the meal, from starters and salads to handhelds and big plates to desserts.
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We are each other's harvest : celebrating African American farmers, land, and legacy
Natalie Baszile
630.973 /Baszile
Black History, Black Lives Matter, Nonfiction
"In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people's connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. Baszile explores this crisis, through the farmers' personal experiences. In their own words, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The Returning Generation--young farmers, who are building upon the legacy of their ancestors, talk about the challenges they face as they seek to redress issues of food justice, food sovereignty, and reparations."--
An absolutely fascinating exploration of African American connection to land past, present and future. I loved the acknowledgment of historical truths and hopes for restorative futures in this series of essays, poems and photography. -Victoria
High conflict : why we get trapped and how we get out
Amanda Ripley
303.6 /Ripley
Nonfiction, Political
High conflict is what happens when discord distills into a good-versus-evil kind of feud, the kind with an us and a them. The normal rules of engagement no longer apply: we feel increasingly certain of our own superiority and, at the same time, more and more mystified by the other side. Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict-- and how they break free. She interviews people who were drawn into high conflict, and shows how they found ways to rehumanize and recategorize their opponents, even as they continued to fight for what they knew was right. -- adapted from jacket
I reserved this book based on a review I read in the New York Times. It promised to be a highly readable breakdown of the driving forces behind serious conflicts--how well-meaning people get into them and how they can get out. I am learning so much from this book. I may have picked it up while thinking of the politically charged times we live in, but it has shined the light on conflict-inducing traps I didn't even know had snared me. For people who want to be freed of these snares, this book is a must-read. -Melody
A little devil in America : notes in praise of Black performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
791.09 /Abdurraqib
Black Lives Matter, Black History, Music, Nonfiction
"A Little Devil in America is an urgent project that unravels all modes and methods of black performance, in this moment when black performers are coming to terms with their value, reception, and immense impact on America. With sharp insight, humor, and heart, Abdurraqib examines how black performance happens in specific moments in time and space--midcentury Paris, the moon, or a cramped living room in Columbus, Ohio. At the outset of this project, Abdurraqib became fascinated with clips of black minstrel entertainers like William Henry Lane, better known as Master Juba. Knowing there was something more complicated and deep-seated in the history and legacy of minstrelsy, Abdurraqib uncovered questions and tensions that help to reveal how black performance pervades all areas of American society. Abdurraqib's prose is entrancing and fluid as he leads us along the links in his remarkable trains of thought. A Little Devil in America considers, critiques, and praises performance in music, sports, writing, comedy, grief, games, and love"--
Looking forward to reading this one! He's a poet, essayist, and cultural critic that has been a Visiting Professor at the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program as well as taken part in past Mission Creek Festivals. -Jason
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